Possible Scam

[BooRae]

Got a very strange email today (copied and pasted below). I know its a scam, but pretty clever that some how they know that a year ago I was looking for '66-67 doors. Anybody else get anything like this?

From steve.j clark <trademanager_business@yahoo.com>
Subject: urgent inquiry: 66-67 doors $350
The items are still very much available.The 66-67 doors is quite expensive.We specialize on the originality.The minimum order is 3 pieces,you can state your final price to us.please do get back to us as soon as possible.

Just a heads up.
Now I've gotta go get that new-to-me 5.0L out of my truck-

BooRae

 

[BooRae]

Oh, the funnest thing is that there is a 'Minimum Order' of 3... Doors?
Would that be 2 drivers and 1 passenger's door?

BooRae

 

[TN1776]

I hate scammers...

 

[Heus33]

I also like to specialize on the originality.

Seems legit to me ;D

 

[sprdv1]

2 doors, one tailgate... ;D

 

[needabronco]

Poor grammer, punctuation, and inconsistant use of capitals, smells like a scam to me.... The urgent inquiry is also a popular ploy of a scam. If they could only learn english they could do much better at scamming money from people.

 

[4x4babygirl]

I got one about Dixie that was really, really good the other day. Now, keep in mind, between my dozen+ email addresses, I get about 300-400 spam emails a day. And this one still was good enough to get me to reply. After about 3 emails I got suspicious when they wanted to pay with a check. I just said cash only and that was the end of that.

 

[thegreatjustino]

you can state your final price to us.

$3.50 for a set of doors.....

 

[BooRae]

$3.50 for a set of doors.....

Yea, that is what I was thinking. The minimum order of three would put it at 10.50 if I doing the math right. Always think that it would be cool to reply to the email and send a virus that would corrupt their hard drive. Or, offer to buy them and send monopoly money.

 

[thegreatjustino]

Or, offer to buy them and send monopoly money.

That would be awesome ;D

 

[76MaBronco]

I got one the other day...everything was spelled in plural. It hurt to read it.

 

[tasker]

Mass buy? ;D ;D

 

[csjr]

I saw a stat the other day from the year 2004 I think that said out of the 17 Billion emails that travel the world each day, 70% of them are crap adds/spams/scams etc.

 

[thegreatjustino]

I saw a stat the other day from the year 2004 I think that said out of the 17 Billion emails that travel the world each day, 70% of them are crap adds/spams/scams etc.

Wouldn't surprise me. But on the positive side of that, if you have ever signed up for a free trial of playboy.com's pay area, once you cancel your free trial, they keep sending you e-mails to come back and pay to join. You gotta love getting naked lady e-mails :-*

 

[bjs254]

I got a email from a scammer. In short they will send me a cashiers check that is in a excessive amount for some reason and you mail them back the difference . problem is the cashiers check is phony

 

[Dowd]

I got one about Dixie that was really, really good the other day. Now, keep in mind, between my dozen+ email addresses, I get about 300-400 spam emails a day. And this one still was good enough to get me to reply. After about 3 emails I got suspicious when they wanted to pay with a check. I just said cash only and that was the end of that.

Just fyi my gmail account gets very few spams a day unlike my msn account that gets a few hundred a day. Scammers are as common as spammers now, so be carefull.